Monday, August 24, 2009
August.
Summer. In full swing.
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Algae and Eel Grass fouls cages and needs to be scraped off.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Models
New T-shirts and hats are in, getting pictures together for our store. (There's rumors of an Abercrombie catalog photo shoot on Duxbury Beach sometime in the near future--we were thinking that just in case they can't find any good models from their usual sources...)
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Shore, Mark, and Claire. Pose #1.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Moving Seed Out to Back River
Christian likes to say "It's a big popcorn machine" right now because of the explosion on the growth curve during this time of the year. It's constant sorting--shaking the oysters through mesh screens. What falls through stays in the upwellers for a while longer, the bigger ones are moved into bags that either sit in cages on the floor of the bay, or--as in these pictures--float up in Back River.
Erin explains what's going on in detail on Shucked.
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If they're too small, they fall through. What's left are 1/4" or bigger. These will go in bags, and out onto the grants.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Picking Oysters in the Fog
On a drainer low tide everyone is out picking oysters (or razor clams) by hand.
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GPS shows that it was a -1.6' tide at 8:12am today...
Monday, June 8, 2009
Just Another Afternoon on an Oyster Farm
And the countdown to the 2009 Oysterfest has begun...
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This is Gourmet.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Moving Cages
While new seed grows in the upwellers, cages are moved from winter storage (back of the shop, cranberry bogs, backyards) out onto the bay. When the new oysters are big enough, they're put in bags that sit on the shelves of these cages.
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At the Town Landing, from trucks to boats.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Getting Upwellers Ready
Moving upwellers around and getting them ready for 1.5 - 2.5 mm Oyster seed. And a few pictures of the science experiment Skip's has going with a bunch of his new stuff this year--he wants to see how they do just floating in boxes out in the Back River....
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On the DBMS Rowing float with one of his upwellers, Christian getting his silos together.
Friday, May 8, 2009
New Seed
May and June is stressful around here, due to new (and fragile) oyster seed. It's the most critical time period in the oysters growth. And like Mark says, sometimes you feel like you're driving down the highway throwing money out the window....
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~400K baby oysters in Mark's hands.
Monday, April 27, 2009
More Prime Time Weather
Very low tide today, -1.3' at around 7:30am.
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Billy's float.
